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Page 2 of 23 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org ii. Update the RWC Walk Bike Thrive Plan with recommendations from the GDAP effort; iii. Include the potential GDAP expansion area as a focus area in the upcoming Economic Vitality Strategy, and/or; iv. Evaluate options for drafting a Community Plan for the area east of Woodside Road. STRATEGIC PLAN GUIDING PRINCIPLES Economic Vitality Transportation Housing BACKGROUND The City is currently in the process of preparing a new plan for the Greater Downtown area, which includes the Downtown core and the adjacent neighborhoods of Centennial (south of Whipple Avenue) and Stambaugh-Heller within its planning area. The Greater Downtown Area Plan (GDAP) effort includes an extensive community outreach and visioning process, economic analysis, and environmental analysis; it will culminate in a Plan that guides the area’s equitable evolution in terms of land use, urban design, mobility and connectivity, historic preservation, economic vibrancy, infrastructure, and climate resiliency. GDAP Work Completed To Date On August 26, 2024, City Council approved a consultant contract with a project team led by WRT, a San Francisco-based planning and urban design firm, to support City staff in community engagement for the GDAP and in drafting the Plan itself. On September 18, 2024, City staff and the consultant team held a kick-off meeting to initiate Phase 1 planning work. Over the following 8 months, the project team engaged in an in-depth existing conditions analysis of the planning area and kicked off a series of community engagement activities intended to understand City and community interests, concerns, and priorities for the Greater Downtown area. The project team presented the results of its existing conditions analysis to the Planning Commission on June 17, 2025. The project team then quickly pivoted to project Phase 2, developing the GDAP Vision Framework, which proposed an overarching set of concepts and ideas intended to spark a community conversation about the future of Redwood City’s Greater Downtown area. The Vision Framework, which was presented at a community open house on October 11, 2025, and at study sessions to seven Boards, Commissions, and Committees (BCCs) and to the City Council for their input and feedback between October 2025 and January 2026, laid the conceptual framework for the GDAP. In January 2026, the project team kicked off project Phase 3 (current phase) to further develop the concepts from the Vision Framework; in this phase, the project team will prepare a Plan Framework for community, BCC and City Council review and endorsement. The Plan Framework will set the ultimate direction for drafting the Final Plan and Environmental Impact Report (project Phase 4) and will serve as the “project description” for the project’s environmental analysis. 9.A. - Page 2 of 27 529